Call: Action
grants to support national or transnational projects on non-discrimination and Roma integration

The Fundamental Rights and Citizenship programme aims to promote the development of a European society based on respect
for fundamental rights and rights derived from citizenship of the European Union.

The
focus of the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship programme is:

the protection of the rights of the child;

combating
racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism;

the fight against homophobia;

active participation in the democratic
life of the Union;

data protection and privacy rights;

training and networking between legal professions and
legal practitioners.

Action grants to
support national or transnational projects on non-discrimination and Roma integration

Description
of call"Action grants to support national or transnational projects on non-discrimination and Roma integration"

In
this call, the Commission wishes to support activities which tackle at least one of the following groups at risk of discrimination:
racial or ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, older/younger people, religious minorities and LGBTI (lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender or intersex) people.

The priority areas of this call for proposals are:

1. Fighting
against discrimination based on sexual orientation in society and promoting the rights of LGBTI people.2. Diversity management in the public and private sector: identification of existing practices, measurement of diversity
management benefits, and awareness-raising. The proposed activities may be linked to the launch and implementation of Diversity
Charters.3. Roma: activities aiming to raise awareness and combat harmful
stereotypes of Roma and supporting thereby their integration into mainstream society.4. To raise awareness about intergenerational solidarity and non-discrimination on the basis of age (in particular
of young people).

Priority will be given to fund at least one project in each of the above-mentioned four priority
areas, subject to eligibility and reaching sufficient quality threshold under award criteria.

This call
will fund activities on:

training of professionals;

mutual
learning, exchange of good practices, cooperation, including identifying best practices which may be transferable to other
participating countries;

dissemination and awareness raising activities (including at local level), such
as seminars, conferences, campaigns or social media and press activities

International
Organization, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, SMEs (between 10 and 249 employees), NGO / NPO, Enterprise (more than 250
employees or not defined), Public Services

Applicant details

The applicants
and partners must be public entities or private organisations or international organisations. Organisations which are profit-oriented
must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit-oriented organisations.

Applications in response to this call are only
possible via the Electronic Submission System. In order to use this system all participants (applicant and partners) first
need to create a user account, the so-called ECAS account. To do so, you need to access the Participant Portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html